I know that I am saving the world while I sit on my Couch. I have been very good at listening to guidelines and restrictions but it is getting increasingly hard. And seeing people still going on trips and meeting with friends makes me question if my isolation is even making a dent. it is also hard getting used to online schooling and being at home. Online classes are the best possible alternative but uneasiness to ask questions and easily accessible distractions make listening to a professor talk for 50 or 75 minutes extremely difficult. I haven’t had a zoom intruder shotgunning a beer or making jokes but I wish there would be, it would bring some variance to the class. Many professors are also assigning more work to cram the extra week of “spring break” somehow into the semester and not change the syllabus.
I am missing school, friends, Newark, the average dining hall food and most importantly parties. Hard tests or hard practices didn’t matter when there was a party to look forward to. The hours studying or at practice were all forgotten when I was able to party with my friends but that has since been taken away. The worst of it all was that practices and parties were cut out in a matter of hours on the day we all found out there were positive cases on campus. we all just had to go home without being able to thoroughly enjoy our last days of the semester, on campus.
All the time spent in isolation will make us all miss Newark, our friends, and classes more and when everyone is let out of their houses, the respect and appreciation will be grander. Although I am bored and growing restless from seeing the same 2 people every single day, I am optimistic that this will be over by fall and we will be able to see hints of normalization again.
-Day 24 of Quarantine
Miguel Palacios
ENGL110 Spring 2020 11:15-12:05 
I really liked your first paragraph. I too have been staying home on quarantine but have seen many people out on trips and visiting their friends. I have also questioned if my contribution has even made a dent in the pandemic. Hopefully this will all be over come before and will be able to return back to Newark.
-Vienna Iacona
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Your opening sentence is very intriguing. I agree with your sentence, “…seeing people still going on trips and meeting with friends makes me question if my isolation is even making a dent.” I feel like so many people are taking this quarantine seriously, while others are just defeating the whole purpose of it. Your last sentence is also very unique; I like how you made this seem like a journal entry.
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your first sentence really stood out to me. It seems so unrealistic that we are saving the world while just sitting on our couches, but that is ultimately what we are doing. However, I have seen way to many people still hanging out with their friends and traveling, and it disgusts me. No one should feel like they are an exception in this kind of crisis.
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I really enjoyed your writing style overall. It really pulled me in and connected with me when you discussed how difficult it is to remain focused when there are so many distractions that are so easily accessible. I too am having the same issues and I find it very hard to sit through a lecture knowing that I could just turn my camera off and be playing video games. This is such a huge change and an unprecedented way of learning I am interested to see how future generations are impacted.
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